There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.

Polybius

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Polybius (; Greek: Πολύβιος, Polýbios; c. 200 – c. 118 BC) was a Greek historian of the middle Hellenistic period. He is noted for his work The Histories, a universal history documenting the rise of Rome in the Mediterranean in the third and second centuries BC. It covered the period...

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